New York Times unveils hidden wealth for Chinese leaders

The New York Times’s David Barboza published an incredible story Friday, Oct. 26 on the hidden wealth of Chinese prime minister Wen Jiabao’s family. In the magazine length piece, Barboza details the power, business dealings and wealth the prime minister’s family has amassed during his political tenure. The story is an impressive piece of journalism, […]

NY Times names new investigative biz reporter

New York Times business editor Larry Ingrassia sent out the following staff announcement: We’re pleased to announce the David Kocieniewski will take a new assignment in Business Day, as an investigative reporter covering multinationals and how they operate around the globe. David has displayed his great reporting chops in various assignments at The Times, most recently […]

Who could be bidding for the FT?

Amy Chozick of The New York Times talks with deputy business editor David Gillen about what might happen to The Financial Times now that the CEO of Pearson, its parent, is stepping down.

NYTimes, USA Today and two North Carolina papers win Barlett & Steele Awards

The New York Times, USA Today and a joint project by The Charlotte Observer and The (Raleigh) News & Observer won gold, silver and bronze awards respectively in the sixth annual Barlett & Steele Awards for Investigative Business Journalism, the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism announced Thursday. Named for the renowned investigative […]

Advertising Week! Cats and dogs living together!

It’s Advertising Week 2012! Ok, so no one’s actually jumping out of a chair to run to New York, but Tanzina Vega and Stuart Elliot do have an interesting story in the New York Times about the five-day event. As the world relies more on digital, companies are trying to figure out the best way […]

Diana Henriques receives SABEW award

Diana Henriques, reporter for The New York Times, received the 22nd SABEW Distinguished Achievement Award at the organization’s fall conference on Thursday night. Each year the honor, SABEW’s highest, is given to someone “who has made a significant impact on the field of business journalism and who has served as a nurturing influence on other […]

WSJ. editor leaves for NYT’s style magazine

Deborah Needleman, the editor in chief of The Wall Street Journal’s style magazine WSJ., has been hired to run T: The New York Times Style Magazine. Christine Haughneyof The Times writes, “Ms. Needleman will replace Sally Singer, a former Vogue editor who left The Times in August after running the T magazines for two years. […]

Covering the world of business, online only

David Carr of the New York Times writes Monday about how The Atlantic’s new business site Quartz aims to change how business news is delivered. Carr writes, “Quartz is the company’s effort to take advantage of a changed environment, not just in publishing, but in the world at large. The editorial product is aimed at […]

WSJ. editor offered job as editor of T magazine

Deborah Needleman, the editor of WSJ. magazine, has been offered the job as editor of the New York Times’ T magazine, reports Joe Pompeo of Capital New York. Pompeo writes, “It’s unclear what the exact status of the deal is; sources cautioned that anything could still happen. And Needleman, reached on her cell phone, hung […]

The ties that connect Nelson Rockefeller, Henry Luce and the Times’ Gardiner Harris

The bride, according to news reports, wore an ivory antique-lace blouse and a blue and ivory silk brocade skirt belonging to her maternal grandmother, Elizabeth Roberts Clark. The groom, a seventh-generation Kentuckian, was an award-winning journalist and editor – a protégé of Henry Luce – the founder of Time, Fortune and Life magazines. Both bride […]